Bloomberg needs to inhale and quit wasting taxpayer money
Why Was an Ad Criticizing Mayor Bloomberg for NYC’s Marijuana Arrest Policy Censored?
Driving along the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE), you’ll see advertisements for just about everything, including alcohol, strip clubs and casinos. But there’s one ad you won’t see: a rejected billboard highlighting Mayor Bloomberg’s marijuana arrests policies in New York City.
Most New Yorkers don’t know that last year, the New York Police Department arrested close to 50,000 people for marijuana possession at a staggering cost of nearly $100 million. Even fewer know that possession of marijuana has been decriminalized in New York State since 1977. Yet over thirty years later, New York City has the dubious distinction as the marijuana arrest capital of the world.
To raise public awareness, the Drug Policy Alliance contracted advertising space on the BQE from TITAN 360, the world’s largest transit advertising company. The billboard, criticizing Mayor Bloomberg for his out of control marijuana arrest policy, was set to go up this week in Brooklyn and run through the month of May. TITAN estimated the billboard would be seen by nearly 400,000 people per day.
Then last week, TITAN rejected the billboard. In an email exchange, the TITAN representative said the landlord refused the ad because of “political circumstances from the Mayor’s office.”</em>
Think about that. 100 million dollars- to arrest people for using a weed. Gosh, I can’t imagine a better use for money taken at the point of a gun, can you? Bloomberg is the poster boy of what evil a rich liberal can do. Between arresting non-criminal potheads, suing legitimate gun dealers (helping in keeping New Yorkers as a large pool of victims who can’t defend themselves legally), and hectoring restaurants over the salt and trans fat content of their food, this Richie Rich thinks he’s smarter than all the rest of us.
Inhale and get over yourself, you nanny with a checkbook.
